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I'm going to guess you have to cross reference this with usage to get an accurate picture right?

If you take Nicolas Batum as an example, his touches are going to largely come in the way of spotting up on the three point line so his need to pass is greatly reduced. Rudy Gay however will spend more time with the ball in his hands without being a viable offensive threat and will therefore pass slightly more often.

Sure -- in fact, that's what Ziller did in his original article to spark this whole discussion. You could just use touches as the other axis, especially since touches/min are highly correlated with passing (by definition in this estimate, as well as the fact that passes simply happen more frequently than shots, fouls, or turnovers).

Between 2 guys with the same pass% (i.e., Batum/Gay), the guy with the higher touches/min is being the bigger black hole because you would expect someone with more touches to have a higher pass%.

I was not surprised at all to see Travis Outlaw's name on the list. As a Blazer fan I got to watch this guy up close for several years... it got to be funny to watch guys like Aldridge freeze him out of the offense... where most players would keep rotating the ball, I saw several Blazers are multiple occasions look over, see that the next rotation pass was to Outlaw, stop, turn and reverse the rotation.